Whitelisting rule query

[shyam hirurkar]

Hello,

R u giving in the same line  From: domain and From IP and yes, Hope this is
wrong if not let me knwo i will also use the same , Also if you give in
different line then again you will get spoof ID as you said earlier.

Shyam

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Julian Field
<MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>wrote:

>
>
> On 27/05/2009 10:48, Stef Morrell wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm wanting to whitelist email coming from my office, so it doesn't get
>> marked up as spam, in particular when discussing spammy topics with
>> colleagues/clients.
>>
>> If I simply whitelist *@mydomain.com then this allows email with spoofed
>> 'from' address throught.
>>
>> I can't whitelist the mail relay, as there's any number of domains email
>> running through it and if one of those users takes it upon themselves to
>> throw a spam sandwich at it, I want to catch it and stop it before the
>> wide wide world decides to blacklist me.
>>
>> So, what I hope to be able to do is add a spam whitelisting rule along
>> the lines of
>>
>> From: *@mydomain and From:<IP ADDRESS>
>>
>> Does this makes sense and is it achieveable?
>>
>>
> Yes, and you have even got the syntax right. Just add a "yes" on the end of
> the line and put it in /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.whitelist.rules. Then do
> a "service MailScanner reload" and it will re-read the configuration, and
> away you go.
>
>  Regards
>>
>> Stef
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>>
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